How to format your references using the Frontiers in Hematology Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Hematology Oncology. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Markó, I. E. (2001). Natural product synthesis. The art of total synthesis. Science 294, 1842–1843.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sakaguchi, S., and Wing, K. (2011). Immunology. Damping by depletion. Science 332, 542–543.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shi, Y., Tyson, G. W., and DeLong, E. F. (2009). Metatranscriptomics reveals unique microbial small RNAs in the ocean’s water column. Nature 459, 266–269.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Snippert, H. J., Haegebarth, A., Kasper, M., Jaks, V., van Es, J. H., Barker, N., et al. (2010). Lgr6 marks stem cells in the hair follicle that generate all cell lineages of the skin. Science 327, 1385–1389.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Shi, Y., Liu, M., and Fang, F. (2017). Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Nordling, J., Wyndaele, J. J., Merwe, J. P. van de, Bouchelouche, P., Cervigni, M., and Fall, M. eds. (2013). Bladder Pain Syndrome: A Guide for Clinicians. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Holzer, M., and Kutrib, M. (2011). “Cellular Automata and the Quest for Nontrivial Artificial Self-Reproduction,” in Membrane Computing: 11th International Conference, CMC 2010, Jena, Germany, August 24-27, 2010. Revised Selected Papers Lecture Notes in Computer Science., eds. M. Gheorghe, T. Hinze, G. Păun, G. Rozenberg, and A. Salomaa (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 19–36.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Frontiers in Hematology Oncology.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014). Skyscraper-Sized Sculptures Carved Beneath Greenland’s Ice Sheet. IFLScience.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (2014). Federal Student Loans: Oversight of Defaulted Loan Rehabilitation Needs Strengthening. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Ballard, K. J. (2012). Frequent factors for psychiatric hospital readmission.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Ruprecht, T. (2010). High-School Redux. New York Times, MM50.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Markó, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Markó, 2001; Sakaguchi and Wing, 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Sakaguchi and Wing, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Snippert et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Hematology Oncology
Abbreviation	Front. Oncol.
ISSN (online)	2234-943X
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology